EVCA Newsletter | March 2021 - Events, Jobs, and More!
Welcome back to the EVCA newsletter! We hope you get a little reprieve with this newest edition—replete with tons of events, jobs, and updates from the trenches of venture capital life.
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EVCA Spotlight: He Went From Working on a Banana Farm to Selling His First Company to Cisco in the Span of a Decade. Meet Lior Susan, Founding Partner of Eclipse Ventures.
We had the chance to interview Lior Susan, who is Founding Partner at Eclipse Ventures, where he invests in startups disrupting essential industries. Lior shares with us his origins story—from working as a banana farmer, serving as an officer in the Israeli Defense Force, selling his first startup, and finally, starting his own venture capital fund. Through his story, he shares the lessons about career and life he learned along the way.
Featured Investors
This month we highlight Meryl Breidbart of LDV Capital and Calvin Ling of Prefix Capital as our featured investors of the EVCA community.
Meryl Breidbart, Associate at LDV Capital: Meryl Breidbart is a designer and founder-turned-investor now working as an associate at LDV Capital. She began her career as co-founder and creative director of Chirps, one of the first cricket-as-a-food companies. While continuing to work part-time on Chirps, Meryl was also an early employee at Amino Apps and Jopwell. After getting her MBA at the Yale School of Management, Meryl joined LDV in early 2020 and has spent the past year honing her investing skills and learning all there is to know about visual technologies and deep tech investing.
Calvin Ling, Principal at Prefix Capital: Calvin graduated from Stanford with a Bachelor’s degree in Management Science and Engineering and a minor in Economics. He worked for Honda R&D to help launch the Honda Xcelerator program as part of Honda’s open innovation initiative. After leaving Honda, Calvin joined 415 Investments as an associate, where he worked on investments including Manus Bio, SwiftComply, Lemonaid Health, and Vidrovr. He is now a founding Principal at Prefix Capital, an early-stage, deep technology venture capital firm.
EVCA Leadership Spotlight: Cybersecurity Vertical Lead, Morgan Mahlock
This EVCA Leadership Spotlight Series is intended to help the broader community get to know what's going on behind the scenes at the EVCA, as well as highlight the valuable contributions of the roughly 50 individuals across the venture capital industry who make the EVCA possible.
Morgan Mahlock serves as EVCA’s Cybersecurity Vertical Lead and is an investor at In-Q-Tel, the non-profit strategic investor supporting the U.S. intelligence and national security community. Morgan previously spent time at the NFL and at Sikorsky (acquired by Lockheed Martin). She graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Product Design and MS in Management Science and Engineering, where she was on the lightweight rowing team and led Stanford Women in Design. She works with a variety of nonprofit organizations including BLCK VC and EVCA, and in her free time, enjoys running, rowing, playing piano, and traveling. Morgan writes a newsletter, alohomora, on how content influences culture.
What We’re Reading
The Next Wave of Industry Cloud is Data - Joe Floyd and Wenz Xing of Emergence Capital, talk about new trends in the cloud market
Investing in Data - Nandu Anilal of Canaan Ventures, discusses the data tools and infrastructure market
Crypto: Rally or Inflection Point? - Justine Humenansky of Playground Global, examines the crypto market
Tools for System Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking - Leyla Acaroglu, Founder of the UnSchool of Disruptive Design, provides an online toolkit for systems thinking
Events
SVB, EVCA & True Search Venture Compensation and Career Progression Webinar | March 9 | Hosted by Silicon Valley Bank, EVCA, and True Search
Mobility Disruption Conference | Cowen | March 10-12
CMU Energy + Cleantech Investor Forum & Startup Pitch Showcase | Carnegie Mellon University | March 24
Auto & Mobility Tech Workshop | Doon Insights | March 23
Collision Conference | Collision | April 20-22
Jobs
Associate Role in New York City at Health Enterprise Partners
Regional Director Role in San Francisco at the National Security Innovation Network
Senior Manager at Okta Ventures. If interested, please directly message Austin Arensberg on Slack
Multiple openings available for the Silicon Valley office at Geodisic Capital
Associate or Vice President role in Los Angeles at Fika Ventures
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